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2016: what happened next?

What happened to the families that fell out over Brexit? How did a Rochdale phone shop assistant end up on Kanye West's album? Where are the MPs that plotted against Jeremy Corbyn, and how did Rio fare after the Olympics? Have the rules of celebrity and fame changed this year, and can we solve the mystery of why the mannequin challenge went viral? We revisit some of the biggest – and strangest – stories of 2016

  • Supporters of Turkish president Recep Erdoğan chant slogans and wave Turkish flags as they gather in Istanbul’s main Taksim Square.

    After Turkey’s failed coup, a sense of fatalism has set in

  • Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, Iceland’s prime minister, resigns over the Panama Papers leak

    The Panama Papers fallout: banana protests, paltry fines and a PR problem

  • Tom Hiddleston and Taylor Swift; Katy Perry; Kanye West and Kim Kardashian; Calvin Harris.

    How the fame game changed in 2016

  • Leave voters heckle remain supporters on a ‘March for Europe’, London.

    Families divided by Brexit: ‘Part of me just wants to avoid my dad completely now’

  • Clockwise from top left: Tom Watson, Angela Eagle, Hilary Benn, Heidi Alexander, Owen Smith and Luciana Berger.

    The fate of the MPs who plotted a coup against Corbyn

  • The dismantling of the Calais camp  in October.

    The child refugees of Calais: ‘The journey is not yet over’

  • ‘Singular voice’ … speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz with Michelle Obama. Photograph: White House. By Chuck Kennedy

    The speechwriter plagiarised by Team Trump

  • Mannequin challenge

    Has the mannequin challenge come to a standstill?

  • Life after the Orlando massacre: ‘I have to brace myself every day’

  • The Rochdale phone shop assistant starring on Kanye West’s album

  • What is Rio’s Olympic legacy?

  • ​Khizr Khan on being vilified by Trump: 'The far right feels that their voice has been heard'

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